that will result in ritchie's arrest for his involvement in rating stores and he will be arrested and incarcerated in the proslavery jail. and managed to escape in the fall of 1856 and find his way back to franklin, indiana where he spent time with his family, his father and his family in indiana, leaving a wife and children here into bego topeka. when he comes back to topeka in the spring of 1857, the free soil people have gained control of the territorial legislature. they begin to institute, rather than pro slavery legislation, they enact a free soil anti- slavery legislation. that pretty well seals the deal that kansas is ultimately going to be a free state rather than a pro slavery state. the result is pretty clear. the free people have become a dominant. and when that happens bleeding kansas turns into a different scenario. that scenario is the people who involved in trying to block the spread of slavery during bleeding kansas now began to operate the underground railroad. beginning in 1857 what happens is that this house becomes one of the centers where escaping slaves can find

steve ritchie. >> good afternoon commissioner. steve ritchie assistant general manager for what. besides please? i've a few slides to show that'll update us on the mountain tunnel project. first here's a schedule for the project that is hopefully clear and concise you can see the next two years a really critical ones for the mountain tunnel project it really three components. the mountain tunnel access improvements, which is getting in there and improving access to the tunnel itself through the roadway access points. the second is the mountain tunnel inspection and repair program, which provides for a significant inspection of the tunnel in early 2017. with some repairs done in 2017 and significant repairs in 2018. lastly down tunnel bypass project. what's important to note there is that it shows some of the work starting before we have actually completed the inspection because we anticipate that while we are aiming for bypass project that we may very well end up with a repair project. so will you be doing some initial work to look at both alternatives, but there's one box on the

that will result in ritchie's arrest for his involvement in rating stores and he will be arrested and incarcerated in the proslavery jail. and managed to escape in the fall of 1856 and find his way back to franklin, indiana where he spent time with his family, his father and his family in indiana, leaving a wife and children here into bego topeka. when he comes back to topeka in the spring of 1857, the free

. >> ritchie, how many times have you been up for parole in the last 18 years? >> twice. >> what's happened each of those times? >> they've continued me, because of something i've done. >> why would you purposely try to ditch your parole? >> because i'm scared of getting out. >> you met the parole board before? >> yes, sir. >> if you didn't want to make parole, can you say i don't want to go? >> i don't know if you would understand but a convict saying that he's not ready to get out, i'd feel like i would be ostracized. >> is that it? >> yes, sir. >> the lieutenant's decision comes swiftly. >> guilty of the charge of refusal, attempt to alter a drug screen. recommend five days of segregation, assess a fee of $25. $4 fine. recommended job drop. you want to appeal this? >> yes, sir. >> yes, sir, i don't think the $25 is appropriate. >> i can suspend that. i will suspend the $25. >> okay. >> and ritchie would like a little time to get his affairs in order before he has to go away for five days. >> no. everything i heard and saw, he attempted to alter the results of

. ♪ >> this week on "q&a" with don ritchie ray smock on the history of the house and senate.ocusing on leaders, characters, and legislation unique to the united states congress. brian: ray smock, you were a historian for 12 years. what do members of the house do when they do not like a member they do not like the way -- and they do not like the way they perform on the house floor? ray: a lot of things they can do and oftentimes argue on the floor. there is not much they can do in terms of changing the legislation. the house works by numbers more so than the senate. whereas if the majority party pretty much calls the shots of what gets on the floor. so there's only so much you can do on the floor if you do not like somebody. of course, you have the chamber quorum but even if you do not like somebody you are supposed to call them nice things. my distinguished colleague, for example, instead of you rotten s.o.b. but, that is part of parliamentary procedure and parliamentary style. brian: what do they do in the senate? don: well, we are still influenced by thomas jefferson, who w

brian: we had don ritchie and ray smock to join us. don ritchie retired as the historian and united states senate. ray smock retired as the whole story in 1995 as of the house was at the robert c. byrd center. let's go to this clip of a member of congress no longer alive, out of congress, third time in prison. here is what he used to sound like on the floor. [video clip] >> of baseball will eliminate tw teams. osome surprise. tickets average 20 bucks. a program is $10. popcorn is five dollars and parking is 20 and a hot dog and a beer cost about $10 and most stadiums. beam me up. the amp test of the umpire said play ball, not monopoly. when a family of four needs a second mortgage to see a baseball game, it does not take dr. ruth to explain to major league baseball what has gone wrong! i yield back what is left of america's great pastime after the greatest world series perhaps in our history. ride explain jim traficant -- brian: explain jim traficant. ray: he was flamboyant and sarcastic and also for the underdog and in this case at th

ritchie. >> thank you, steve ritchie assistant general manager for water. if we could have the slides please. to provide the latest information that we have regarding the drought. in terms of some of the -- routinely our levels of storage and hetch hetchy continues to be high at 93% capacity and water bank is starting to increase. we're releasing water that we are generating hydroelectricity at home powerhouse, providing drafting flows from the tuolumne river, but ends up in the water bank. so it's three-fer at this time. i don't always include this slide. this slide is the status of other california reservoirs. particularly of note, new molonas -- don pedro reservoir at 36% capacity and quite low, anybody have gone upcountry, and you see how low it really is and those reservoirs are extremely low at this point. so we're fortunate to have one that is much fuller. precipitation, i have included this chart because we do continue to get some storms upcountry. so the red line is current year, 2015. and we have gotten to the level we were at least year in terms

. >> reporter: we are looking at a stretch of the beltway at ritchie marlboro road. this is one of the longest straight spots of the beltway. it's going ton throughout the weekend. alternating lane closures on the inner and outer loop. we actually had three lanes closed. that was over at 7:00 this morning. what you are going to see are one and two lane closures as you go through this area. you'll start to see back ups around central avenue, at least in one direction and probably ritchie marlboro in the other. this is what's happening because of concrete repairs going on on the beltway. not a lot of concrete here, but overpasses. this is a heavily traveled area. this is a heavily stressed section of the beltway. you might see how light traffic seems these days. a lot of people on vacation and school is out. that's when the crews take the opportunity to do much needed repairs. it may cause hardship now, but you'll thank them in september on your daily commute. derrick ward news 4. >> thanks. >>> new this morning, one man died following a shooting in the district. it ha

visit ncicap.org] >> "q&a" with don ritchie ray smock on the history of congress. then david cameron takes questions from the house of commons. former vice president walter mondale in colorado center destined talk about intelligence gathering. announcer: this week on "q&a," part two of the discussion with historians don ritchie and ray smock. they talk about the history of the house and senate, focusing on leaders, characters legislation and defining events. brian: race my, you were a historian for 12 years. what do members of the house and do when they do not like a member and the way they perform? ray: a lot of things they can

. ♪ >> this week on "q&a" with don ritchie ray smock on the history of the house and senate.ocusing on leaders, characters, and legislation unique to the united states congress. brian: ray smock, you were a historian for 12 years. what do members of the house do when they do not like a member they do

steve ritchie. so it's a pretty impressive meeting we had an opportunity to share with them our thoughts about how things were going with it out. i message that they to him was consistent in line with what i've told this commission back in may on a long piece points. this region, the region that your service area is, as you saw with steve, has some of the lowest per capita in the state. very proud of that, but also means we know we have more to do. in fact, if you look at april 2015 numbers, residential use was 59 gallons per capita per day across 2.3 million residential customers. that's a phenomenal number when you think about it. it was the lowest that month. our agencies and bawsca are aggressively implementing water conservation insert service area to exceed the state calls. all were not us water supplier, racking like we are in hand-in-hand with her agencies on this. we have partnered with them to implement and expand programs in their service areas, step up and provide services that we can do

this weekend, roadwork happening beltway at ritchie-marl bore row road. wrap up at 5:00 a.m. monday morning. up to three lanes of the inner and outer loop can be closed. part of ritchie marlboro road shut down. traffic could be stopped for up to 15 minutes at a time. have a good one and pack that patience. >>> president obama is in kenya this morning. he spoke at the global entrepreneurship dinner. monday he will meet with ethiopia's prime minister. at least one reporter will not be at the rally when trump visits. one was denied credentials for the event. they say it's because of an article that called him a feckless blowhard unfit to hold office. the first visit to the state since the article was publishes. >>> a toddler dies after being left inside a locked car. police in arkansas said once the father realized what happened and he is not behind bars. >>> captures the moments before and after a deadly stabbing on metro. we'll go through a series of events. >>> a recall that could impact your morning routine when heartburn comes creeping up on you... fight back with relief so

. >> senate historian emeritus don ritchie and race mock -- ray smo ck on history of the house and senate, its leaders and prominent events, tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> recently, american history tv was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in st. louis, missouri. we spoke with professors authors and graduate students about the research. thi interview is about 15 minutess. >> you are a lecturer in history in american studies at the university of tennessee in knoxville. your panel at the organization of the on capital punishment in the 19th century south. how common were executions? bob hutton: executions nationwide were common. in certain rural areas, they were relatively seldom because people did not like to convict their friends and neighbors. juries were often afraid to convict someone who had been convicted of a violent crime. after people were convicted, if they were sentenced to the death penalty it would not always be carried out. they could get clemency. the particular execution i covered in my paper was such a rare event that 5000

. >> senate historian don ritchie a farmhouse a story ray smock on the history of the house and senate, its leaders, characters and prominent defense sunday night at eight eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. >> youyou are watching booktv on c-span2. ..

guy ritchie's wedding and check out the best wedding guest list ever. brad pitt and david beckham. their light suit dark tie look is nearly a match. maybe they were grooms men. super man henry cavill starring in "the man from u.n.c.l.e." reboot. as is armie hammer. and what is artie? said i dos yesterday in england to jackie inslee. she wore a backless gown and a flower crown. they had their own hashtag for the own event. #jacksguyjuly. where guests posted their photos. one last look at beck to brag. you're welcome. >>> finally, congrats to new mom, ashlee simpson. gave birth to a baby girl in mt. sinai in los angeles. ashlee married diana ross' son, evan ross, last year and it's their first child together. ashlee has a son from her marriage to pete wentz. >> congratulations. >>> another star is showing off her after-body baby. take a look at this by zoe saldana. she gave birth to twins less than seven months ago and said losing the weight was difficult. >>> up next, "project runway" is back but what has host tim dunn off the rails? >> what is the [ bleep ] point? >> tim is getting

this started on todd drive-in ritchie manor neighborhood. a watches on the ground where the police say an officer approached the car. the suspect sped off with the officer's arm stuck, dragging him hundreds of feet before smashing into a tree, throwing the officer on the ground. >> while the guy was running, i saw police cars barreling down. tom: this picture of medics treating the officer. the police began a manhunt for the suspect, searching by air and using a bloodhound on the ground. >> the suspect failed to stop for the officer and endanger the officer and potentially somebody else's life. what is it that you were doing so bad that you have to injured officer, damage someone's home and have neighborhood in fear of what is happening next? tom: julia once the suspect caught. >> it's making people to leave their own house and honestly people have to go to work and do stuff in the morning. like, is it safe anymore? tom: this is the car and where it hit the tree. the officers injuries are not life-threatening, thankfully but he had to be tak

part of ritchie-marlboro road will be shut down, one lane in each direction closed on friday to noon on saturday. traffic also could be stopped there for up to 15 minutes at a time. have a good one and pack that patience. >> thanks, melissa. you'll also need to pack your patience driving in montgomery county. crews are working to establish new lanes at georgia avenue and randolph road in wheaton just about an hour ago tonight. traffic will be down to one lane in each direction on both georgia avenue and randolph road while the work is being done. best bet may be to avoid the area until monday when everything is back to normal. >>> well, for weeks now, animal control has been trying to return this little dog to her home. tonight, that organization is asking for your help. >>> disturbing new numbers on the d.c. synthetic drug outbreak, shedding light on the growing problem. >> you can't stigmatize an entire group of people for something that a few people have done. >> why the sister of a murdered police officer is breaking her silence years later. >>> we have breaking news right now an

mdot will close as many as three lanes in each direction over ritchie marlboro road near marlboro.at 9:00 tonight and will continue through monday morning to allow for bridge repair. a warning in western fairfax after a third black bear sighting this week. fairfax county police tweeted this picture of a bear taken in the great falls area today. the bear seen today did not behave aggressively. authorities are seized three vennous snakes from a home and pet store in allegheny county in western maryland. police were acting on a tip when they carried out the raid. they seized a west african spinning cobra, a timber rattlesnake. they were taken to a nearby zoo. it is illegal to possess cobras or rattlesnakes in maryland. probably not a good idea to possess them anywhere. doug: not a good idea to do snakes as the story before doug comes in as the weather. that is my major phobia in life. maureen: forget that story. doug: if my kid had a rubber snake, it would be life threatening to me. think about the good weather for the weekend. i'll get over that. i'll dream about that tonight. a live

ritchie is suggesting a and lex >> i guess from our standpoint within partnering with the interruptible rate customers and they've been performing well during some of the challenges they have i think one of the things were looking at was achieving the 25, but hiring the penalty if they don't meet it. so, that was something that was a first step then, as we start really honing in on interruptible rates we didn't really think about it when we initiated interruptible means relief to shut off someone's water will be the first one to shut it off. so, now as we progress a request for reductions, were trying to find tune it. were sort of suggesting that 25 is probably good enough that the higher the penalty. i do understand that you want more conservation from those accounts. so, it can go in either way. i think were recommending higher penalties, if they fail to meet the 25%. >> the objective that i have is not to make money to save water. if people have been getting a rate benefits on the expectation that it august curtailed. we need to have a stronger cutback provision than is for people we

a major project near ritchie marlboro could cause big delays this weekend. up to three lanes on the inner and outer loop could be closed until 5:00 a.m. monday. crews could stop traffic for up to 15 minutes at a time. >>> well surlz appear -- surveillance appears to show a suspect grab something from a local home and casually stroll away. now investigators hope this clear video helps them get their man. >>> police say a teen swiped his caseworker's car and led officers on a dangerous chase through city streets. find out how they were able to catch up. >>> we do have rain chances this weekend after a beautiful saturday. we're >>> a 13-year-old in milwaukee is probably not looking forward to his next meeting with his social worker. the last time he met with the social worker deputies say, he stole her car and an officer's dash camera caught the chase on video. the boy was arrested with four friends on thursday. the chase ended with deputies used on star to slow the car down. >>> history in east africa today as president obama becomes the first president from a

highway administration will close up to three lanes on the inner and outer lanes of i-495 over the ritchie marlboro road while crews work on that bridge deck. the lanes will close one at a time starting at 9 saturday morning and two lanes will stay closed until 5 a.m. monday. >>> let's talk about pollen. we got a break on the humidity, kind of a break on the pollen, trees and grass no big deal, but now weeds and mold in the moderate range. remember, this is on our website at www.wusa9.com. we'll talk full weekend forecast coming up. >> and next recommendations for fairfax county police, a re >>> the shooting death of john geer in fairfax county two years ago is producing more criticism of the police force and the way they deal with so- called use of force cases president a committee found the department completely mis. a committee found the department completely mishandled how it handled the media and the public and need to make changes right now. they say keeping the name of the officer who fired the shot secret eroded public trust. the records should be released within a week and to use

ritchie. >> thank you, steve ritchie assistant general manager for water.if we could have the slides please. to provide the latest information that we have regarding the drought. in terms of some of the -- routinely our levels of storage and hetch hetchy continues to be high at 93% capacity and water bank is starting to increase. we're releasing water that we are generating hydroelectricity at home powerhouse, providing drafting flows from the tuolumne river, but ends up in the water bank. so it's three-fer at this time. i don't always include this slide. this slide is the status of other california reservoirs. particularly of note, new molonas -- don pedro reservoir at 36% capacity and quite low, anybody have gone upcountry, and you see how low it really is and those reservoirs are extremely low at this point. so we're fortunate to have one that is much fuller. precipitation, i have included this chart because we do continue to get some storms upcountry. so the red line is current year, 2015. and we have gotten to the level we were at least year in terms o

steve ritchie, who has been supervisoring my work has been very supportive and harlan kelley and one outcome of this is that the bay work model, there actually isn't anything else in california like it. there is nothing else in the nation like it. i haven't been able to find anything like it internationally, and i am very involved with international water associations. so the kind of tone that the commission takes about openness to innovation has really showed up here and paid dividends for you that i hope will benefit you for many years to come. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> cheryl is probably one of the people around here who has been with the organization longer than i have, and now that you know, that you are leaving, i think the rest of us are safe. [laughter ]. cheryl is always about people. she managed the people-oriented part of the business, the customer service section for a while. one of the things about her involvement with water reuse is that she started getting very interested in the ethical implication of water supply decisions that were being m

right now three lanes at both the inner and the outer loops at the beltway are closed over ritchie marlboroe so crews can repair the bridge deck. one lane in each direct will reopen at 7:00 tomorrow morning, but -- direction will reonly at 7:00 tomorrow morning, but two -- reopen at 7:00 tomorrow morning, but two lanes on both loops will be closed until 5 a.m. monday. >>> after a string of comfortable summer days the heat and humidity and about to make a comeback. >> just in time for the weekend. first alert chief meteorologist topper shutt is here to tell us which day we're really going to feel it. >> well, tell you. what we're going to start with sunday. might give you a little hint. we've advanced futurecast all the way till sunday morning. notice there's no 60s and certainly no. >>> ifs. 72 at 8:00 sunday morning, mid- 70s downtown. by 1:00 near 90 already and a couple showers and storms developing out in the west. i wouldn't change your plans right now, but there will be an isolated shower or thunderstorm on sunday. by 6:00 we're still 90 downtown, 88 in leesburg, 89 in manassas, prett

at 11:00, another chance to see our convert -- our conversations with don ritchie and ray smock on "q&a". this week in the british house of commons, prime minister david cameron talked about the rising death toll of british nationals killed in terror attacks. he took questions about the use of islamic state to describe extremist costs -- extremist groups, and reducing costs. >> order. questions to the prime minister. angela. >> the prime minister's plan. >> i am sure the house will join with me in congratulating england on reaching the semi finals in the world cup and wishing them well in their match against the pan. mr. speaker, this morning i had meetings with colleagues. i shall have further such meetings later today. >> angela crawley. >> the prime minister stands for english sports and laws will reduce the rates of scottish mps -- >> order. the honorable lady must and will be heard. angela crawley. >> the prime minister's plan for english laws will adjust my rates and the rates of other scottish mps in the house of commons. the real issue is my ability to protect the interest of

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. >> don ritchie and former house historian ray smock on the history of the house and senate, its leaders, characters, and prominent events. sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> up next on "american history tv," u.s. naval warfare college professor maurer. he examines churchill's changing attitude

part of ritchie road also closed down. one lane in each direction closed friday to noon on saturday. traffic also stopped there for up to 15 minutes at a time. have a good one and pack your patience. >> and no travel problems weather wise. if you head out the door for a weekend, maybe going to the pool or the beach, great travel weather. we have sun shine. temperatures around 80. mid 80s in washington. low 80s near the bay. to the west beautiful day on skyline drive where temperatures are 10 degrees cooler. in the valley mid to upper 70s. in the valleys north and west as well, mid to upper 70s. beautiful day on the bay. not much wind for sailing. great weather for enjoying this wonderful summer high. feast your eyes on the four-day forecast. in the weekend, still good on saturday. sunday chance of a thunderstorm in the evening and maybe afternoon storms on monday. >> all right. developing out in california wine country. this. the growth of a wildfire in the napa valley area has finally slowed just enough so that some peopl

. >> don ritchie and former house historian ray smock on the history of the house and senate, its leaderst events. sunday night at a hockey stick and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> next, author marilyn irvin holt talks about how the u.s. government became more involved in baby boomer's cold war childhood. in large part to prepare america's children to compete against their communist peers. this 50 minute talk was sponsored by the national archives in kansas city. holt: good evening and thank you

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